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A blurb on a book can be any combination of quotes from the work, the author, the publisher, reviews or fans, a summary of the plot, a biography of the author or simply claims about the importance of the work. In the 1980s, Spy ran a regular feature called "Logrolling in Our Time" which exposed writers who wrote blurbs for one another's books. [3]
The first print media mention of Whedonesque was a one sentence blurb in USA Today a month after its launch. [3] In 2003, it was cited as one of two top Buffy Internet sites in an article commemorating the show's end. [4]
In newspaper writing, the first paragraph that summarizes or introduces the story is also called the "blurb paragraph", "teaser text" or, in the United Kingdom, the "standfirst". [3] Encyclopedia leads tend to define the subject matter as well as emphasize the interesting points of the article.
Blurb is an American self-publishing platform that allows users to create, self-publish, promote, share, and sell their own print and ebooks. It also offers software for laying out books. History
The picture should be for the uppermost blurb. It may be for a lower blurb if no eligible picture is available for a higher blurb. The picture's caption and the parenthetical (pictured) direct readers to the context for the picture. In rare cases, none of the articles has an eligible picture, so no picture appears.
An email patterned in BLUF declares the purpose of the email and action required. The subject of the email states exactly what the email is about. The body of the message should quickly answer the five Ws: who, what, where, when, and why. The first few sentences explains the purpose and reason of the email and continues to give supporting details.
An epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.
A blurb states that Kempson was convicted of eight further charges against a former partner including unlawful sexual connection, threatening to kill, and assault with a weapon in October 2020. Kempson is subsequently convicted of raping another British tourist in November 2020.